Anti-Semitism's increasingly thin and hard-to-see line

[Adrahil]

144. I disagree.

While the partition plan probably should have been agreed to, given where things were at the time, the combination of the Zionism among some Jews and anti-Semitism among many countries (which closed their borders to Jews), led to an increasing immigration of Jews in the region. The region was not unoccupied when those immigrants arrived.

But whether YOU agree or not is sort of moot. Many millions of people DO perceive an injustice. And so long as that is discounted, and NEW injustices perpetrated (such as the settlements), the government of the modern state of Israel has an issue on its hands which is poisonous to its long term survival (and that's putting aside the thorny issue of demographics which which will ultimately decide just what Israel is to become... a non-Jewish democracy, or an apartheid state).